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“Ample room” for int’l students in the US

The PIE News

As policies restricting international student inflows take hold in Canada , Australia and the UK , “there is ample room for the international student population to grow” in the US, it said. To maximise this capacity for growth, universities “could offer more scholarships and run targeted marketing campaigns in key regions to help with brand awareness (..)

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. In addition to covering tuition, the program also covers textbooks, computers, and living expenses.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

But if trends hold, just a fraction of them will make the jump–especially to a selective institution. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community. There was a clear strategic fit.

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“Too good to be true” – the young Africans receiving international scholarships

The PIE News

So when he received a fully-funded scholarship to study over 3,000 miles away at the University of Edinburgh, he couldn’t believe it – and, at first, his family didn’t. “My Ngwambe is one of the nearly 45,000 young Africans who has received a scholarship from the Mastercard Foundation. My mum thought it was a scam,” he laughs. “It

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. We define earnings boost as the amount more that they are making beyond the typical high school graduate within the state that their institution is located. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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